Revit: Industrialized Construction

Learn how to use Revit to design for industrialized construction, a set of methods and processes that apply manufacturing paradigms to construction.

For many, Revit represents a canonical manifestation of building information modeling (BIM), an end-to-end digitized representation of places, buildings, and other edifices. An inevitable consequence of such fully digitized representations is the rise of industrialized construction, in which manufacturing practices are applied to the construction process. In this course, learn how to use Revit to design for industrialized construction. Instructor Shaun Bryant covers essential concepts, including off-site construction, prefabricated components, and the workflows that connect these to the ultimate assembly of your project. Along the way, Shaun shows how these concepts function in the real world by applying them to a small Revit project.

Introduction

• Discovering industrialized construction with Revit
• What is industrialized construction?
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Revit Philosophy

• Using Revit as a primary BIM design tool
• The industry-wide use of BIM
• The UK Government Construction Strategy
• The BIM Overlay to the RIBA Outline Plan of Work
• The US definition of BIM
• Industrialized construction in a nutshell

2. Working with CAD Drawings

• Working to your own standard
• Working to a recognized standard
• Removing unnecessary objects and layers in the CAD drawing
• Removing unnecessary blocks in the CAD drawing
• Removing all other unnecessary entities in the CAD drawing

3. CAD Drawings: Importing and Linking CAD Files

• Advantages and disadvantages
• Importing and linking a CAD drawing
• Working with the linked file settings in Revit
• Hiding the imported or linked CAD drawing

4. Using Revit for Industrialized Construction

• Prefabricated units for construction
• Bringing the units in to the project with linked Revit models
• Making sure the prefabricated units are located accurately
• Setting up views of the units in the project
• Dimensioning the units for design intent

5. Prefabricated Models: Design Reuse

• Reorienting and renaming an existing prefab unit
• Changing the use of the prefabricated restroom unit
• Reusing existing Revit elements and families
• Linking and positioning the new prefab unit
• Checking existing views of the newly placed prefab unit

6. Sheets and Sheet Views

• Using sheets in Revit
• Adding views to sheets
• Scaling views in sheets
• Tagging elements in views for sheets
• Adding sheet revisions
• Adding project information to sheets

7. Adding Detailing to Views

• Adding detail lines to a view
• Adding text annotation in a view
• Creating new filled regions in Revit

8. Scheduling

• Creating a schedule
• Adding linked Revit families to the schedule
• Adding the schedule to a sheet
• Creating a legend view on a floor plan
• Adding the legend view to a sheet

9. Publishing Your Revit Project

• Checking project information
• Checking title blocks on the Revit sheets
• Checking revisions
• Publishing from Revit
• Viewing the published project sheets in PDF format

Conclusion

• Next steps